dodger

Other forms of dodger

plural

dodgers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dodger

What does dodger mean?

dodger means "a shifty deceptive person". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dodger?

dodger has 2 syllables: dod-ger. The stress falls on "dod". In IPA it is /ˈdɑdʒɚ/.

What is another word for dodger?

Close synonyms include fox, slyboots, corn dab, corn dodger. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dodger a common word?

dodger is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.